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Originally posted by mmm3587
It's one thing to protect one's children from abuse, disease, pregnancy, low self-esteem, etc. It's another entirely to try to make all your kids' decisions for them and prevent them from ever becoming self-sufficient adults who can make their own decisions about what sort of people to get involved with.
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I didn't suggest anything of the sort. I just suggested that there are concerns that parents have when their kids start having romantic/sexual relationships, and the teenaged angst factor is one of them. Parents don't want to see their kids hurt. Everyone knows that sex and romance can lead to pain (and the dreaded angst), and the only way that you learn that is by having to go through it. Parents know they're going to have to let their kids get hurt at some point, but that doesn't mean they have to like it.
What if Sebby's daughter wants to go out with a Lord of the Rings geek? Or the Lizard Boy (not to be mistaken for our own Reptile Boy, Shape Shifter)? Or, heaven forbid, some nerd on the debate team who thinks he wants to be a lawyer and gets her on the academic decathalon team? Sebby is going to have to deal with the fact that his kid is likely going to be hurt by someone he could give a rat's ass about, and that, likely, she's testing the values that he's tried to raise her with. Doesn't mean that Sebby is going to not let her date these guys, it jsut means that he's not going to like it.
